Edtech Business

SELECTED (AND FUNDED): Selected, a self-proclaimed “dating app” that helps match teachers with jobs at PreK-12 schools, has raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by Propel Capital. Kapor Capital and other investors also participated.

SEEING GREEN: Pluralsight, the company behind an online library of courses aimed for technology, creative and business professionals, is officially trading on the public market. And already it’s seen a jump: shares in the Farmington, Utah-based company (PS) opened at $20 on Nasdaq—34 percent above the $15 price they were originally priced at...

OPEN CHECKBOOK: The French MOOC provider and online higher-education platform OpenClassrooms has raised an additional $60 million in a Series B funding round led by General Atlantic, a global equity firm, along with three previous investors. To date, the company has raised nearly $70 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase...

SNAKEBITE: Pythonroom, a developer of a web-based learning management system to support coding education, has been acquired by San Francisco-based Tynker, a learn-to-code company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Pythonroom claims to have helped more than 400,000 students across 35,000 schools learn programming in the Python language...

OUT OF THE BOX: Boxlight Corporation, a publicly-traded company best known for its “Mimio” line of interactive displays and school hardware, has acquired Cohuborate, a developer of touchscreen technology based in the United Kingdom. The transaction was valued at approximately $1.8 million through the issurance of 257,200 shares of common stock at $7 per share...

FUSING THE MONEY: Fuse Universal, a company that offers a learning management platform for workforce training, has raised $20 million from Eight Roads Ventures, according to a press release.